Adventures of Cabelas Retail Store

Buckaholic said:
What a drag JB.
Especially given the trek in the weather. I've been looking forward to checking out that store. Never been to Cabela's. Been to Bass.
Hear that they are pretty much the same. True? Not the retail experience with the clerks, but the store itself.

That bums me when I hear about a knowledge filled customer being served by maroons (as Bugs Bunny calls 'em).
Guess it's even worse for a consumer that doesn't know and would ahve just said "oh, ok" and walked away.

The good news is that you got the 110AG Stag :thumbup::thumbup:

I once felt sad for a Brother with no AG Stag sheath.
Then I heard of a Brother with no AG Stag.

Still feel bad for ya John.
Hope you find your sheath Pee Wee...
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Brother Goose,

I'd say the stores inside are very close to one another. If you are looking at all of the reconstituted wildlife :eek::p the Cabelas exhibits were a little better. The gear is all about the same...the knife displays & knife quantity was better at BPS.

The maroons...I'd call them Curly & Moe:rolleyes: if Larry would have shown up we would have had a complete set of the stooges and it would have been a better show. I felt like crossing the counter and giving them the bisness...if you know what I meen:cool:.

"Thinking"....
I wish I knew what Reno street corner to roll up on and blow on a duck call. Too have the dude in the Daffy Duck suit wearing a Cabelas hat step out and lean into my car window and hand me my AG 110 sheath in a plane brown paper bag for a few $$$. :confused:Darn...just my luck as I try to roll away I get pulled over by Elmer & Porky...ab ab ab whatcha got inininin that bbbbag there feller!!! :eek:...LOL. Sorry...just my twisted mind:p
jb4570
 
JB , I don't go to Cabelas very much.It's 130 miles or so.I did get my
Buck 120 with the tatoo there year before last.They have a good knife
display there.But they are not as knife savvy as the guys at BPS.
Any way I am glad that you got Another ,110- AG with Stag.:thumbup:
But I hope that you could have better luck with the sheath.If I see one
for sale in the Gulf and not the Bay I'll get it for you.:D
Hawkeye
 
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We went in the Kansas City Kansas Cabelas today and I was not at all impressed by the service at the knife counter. We waited for probably 20 minutes just to get helped. I did pick up an AG 110, and they had at least 2 AG stag 110s, but the service was terrible and I think the guy working the counter did not graduate high school.
 
I HATE going to Cabelas for this very reason. The guys in the knife area act like they couldn't care less about selling any of their product. I'm just bugging them by even CONSIDERING a purchase. Hope you find the sheath.

So where is the best place to get a Buck 110 or 112? Someplace online? As a kid I had a 110 and I'm trying to recapture the magic!
 
Yep, what ITE said.
Was just there over the weekend...that's the price. The ONLY diff from any other 110 from anywhere else is that the Wallys come with a cordura sheath instead of leather.
 
Yesterday I was in the Cabela's store in Lacey. They had a 110 with what looked like pretty plain elk horn - the guy working the counter was chatting on the phone, hung up and was avoiding me. He never asked if I needed help or kiss my butt. I made up my mind I wasn't going to ask as I decided I didn't want the knife. Cabela's poor service must be endemic.
 
Buckaholic said:
What a drag JB.
Especially given the trek in the weather. I've been looking forward to checking out that store. Never been to Cabela's. Been to Bass.
Hear that they are pretty much the same. True? Not the retail experience with the clerks, but the store itself.

That bums me when I hear about a knowledge filled customer being served by maroons (as Bugs Bunny calls 'em).
Guess it's even worse for a consumer that doesn't know and would ahve just said "oh, ok" and walked away.

The good news is that you got the 110AG Stag :thumbup::thumbup:

I once felt sad for a Brother with no AG Stag sheath.
Then I heard of a Brother with no AG Stag.

Still feel bad for ya John.
Hope you find your sheath Pee Wee...
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I got home from a hard days work to find a package waiting for me:eek:. In this package was a new AG 110 sheath, sent to me from Brother Goose:thumbup:. It makes me proud to be a member of the Buck forum.
Thank you Marvin
jb4570
 
mainewoodsman said:
LOL -- why is it so hard to find good help these days... sounds like you got lucky finding one of those stag 110's.
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It's ridiculously easy to find good help these days. Good help is overflowing left, right and center. The problem is good help wants to be paid a living wage and a modicum of respect for their hard work. Good help got laid off years ago and replaced by the cheapest help HR could find either here or from whatever God-forsaken hole they could manage to land a plane in.

Show me a man who complains he can't find anyone to hire, and I'll show you a man offering a fraction of the market wage who everyone knows better than to work for.

We're up to our ears in good help. We just don't want to hire it. I'm old and cranky, and yearn for the days when the guys who worked in auto parts stores knew how to change oil and the guys who worked in sporting goods could tell the difference between bass, trout and elk.
 
thermocline said:
It's ridiculously easy to find good help these days. Good help is overflowing left, right and center. The problem is good help wants to be paid a living wage and a modicum of respect for their hard work. Good help got laid off years ago and replaced by the cheapest help HR could find either here or from whatever God-forsaken hole they could manage to land a plane in.

Show me a man who complains he can't find anyone to hire, and I'll show you a man offering a fraction of the market wage who everyone knows better than to work for.

We're up to our ears in good help. We just don't want to hire it. I'm old and cranky, and yearn for the days when the guys who worked in auto parts stores knew how to change oil and the guys who worked in sporting goods could tell the difference between bass, trout and elk.
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AMEN! Your points are another reason I look forward to going to the Buck Store in Post Falls. You cannot beat the service and the help is quite attractive. I never met Pete, though. :eek:
 
If minuim wage had kept up with inflation since 1967 it would be over 22.00 per hour today.....The US senate blocked any increase at all for 10 years during late 80's to mid 90's.......
 
jb4570 said:
I got home from a hard days work to find a package waiting for me:eek:. In this package was a new AG 110 sheath, sent to me from Brother Goose:thumbup:. It makes me proud to be a member of the Buck forum.
Thank you Marvin
jb4570
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You are very welcome John :)
 
jb4570 said:
I got home from a hard days work to find a package waiting for me:eek:. In this package was a new AG 110 sheath, sent to me from Brother Goose:thumbup:. It makes me proud to be a member of the Buck forum.
Thank you Marvin
jb4570
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JB. That Goose is O.K. ain't he?:D Always helping Buck Brother in need.;)
Hawkeye
 
I have been to one Cabelas store in Maine,and the guy at the knife counter was definately on the ball,he was very nice to talk to,let me get some pictures,and also knew every kjnife item in the showcase,he was maybe a knife nut himself,i dunno!lol
 
I wouldn't be too hard on the bozos at the store. Times have really changed in my lifetime. In the 1950's, a person could go into a big hardware store and there were maybe 14,000 different products in there, and they were about the same as they had been 50 years earlier.... a very slow evolution. The clerk had been there some time between 10 and 60 years. He was a fair authority on the stuff in the store. Nowadays, the big store is 15 times as big. There is almost a million items on an inventory that changes every day. Almost nothing you see for sale will be available in 2 years. The employee has been there somewhere between 14 days and 14 months. His boss has been there 2 years. The guy might know quite a bit about one tiny niche of the consumer line because he digs it. YOU will almost certainly know more than the employee about the knives you dig when you go into almost any store on earth. There is so much different stuff for sale now, it changes so fast, and the whole interface between employee and customer has changed so much. The customer and the employee used to be the PEOPLE that DEFINED the country. Now they are as disposable as the goods they are dealing with. Just another cog in a wheel that churns out the $$ for a tiny handful of the ultra rich CEO's. The USA Buck knives we love are some of the very last products of a country who soon will not have the capacity to manufacture anything they need, no machines, no expertise, no nothing. Take everything out of your house that was not made in the USA, and what is left will fit into the center of one bedroom. And you will be butt naked.:eek::(:(:(
 
tongueriver said:
I wouldn't be too hard on the bozos at the store. Times have really changed in my lifetime. In the 1950's, a person could go into a big hardware store and there were maybe 14,000 different products in there, and they were about the same as they had been 50 years earlier.... a very slow evolution. The clerk had been there some time between 10 and 60 years. He was a fair authority on the stuff in the store. Nowadays, the big store is 15 times as big. There is almost a million items on an inventory that changes every day. Almost nothing you see for sale will be available in 2 years. The employee has been there somewhere between 14 days and 14 months. His boss has been there 2 years. The guy might know quite a bit about one tiny niche of the consumer line because he digs it. YOU will almost certainly know more than the employee about the knives you dig when you go into almost any store on earth. There is so much different stuff for sale now, it changes so fast, and the whole interface between employee and customer has changed so much. The customer and the employee used to be the PEOPLE that DEFINED the country. Now they are as disposable as the goods they are dealing with. Just another cog in a wheel that churns out the $$ for a tiny handful of the ultra rich CEO's. The USA Buck knives we love are some of the very last products of a country who soon will not have the capacity to manufacture anything they need, no machines, no expertise, no nothing. Take everything out of your house that was not made in the USA, and what is left will fit into the center of one bedroom. And you will be butt naked.:eek::(:(:(
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Good Post :thumbup:
 
I really thought you were going to say that they sold it before you came back for it. This is almost worse!

Did you try calling the store manager to explain the situation? Perhaps he would like to know that his stock is disappearing. He may also be able to properly motivate his employees to find the missing sheath.

I am glad to hear that you were able to get a replacement sheath.
 
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